A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
